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SPACEHAB Inc. and INTOSPACE Open Joint European Office Washington, D.C., June 25, 1999 — Following a European Marketing Agreement signed by SPACEHAB Inc. and INTOSPACE GmbH one year ago, the two companies announced today's official opening of the Joint Customer Support Office in Leiden, the Netherlands. David A. Rossi, SPACEHAB President, and Jurgen K. von der Lippe, INTOSPACE General Manager, hosted high level Directors and Presidents from ESA, DLR and the Dutch space industry and agencies for the formal opening of the new office. "The Joint Office represents another example of the importance of Europe to SPACEHAB business. This new office is intended to expand services to our European customers — particularly first time users and those from industry," said Rossi. Carlo Mirra, a highly respected researcher and former Deputy Director of the Microgravity and Advanced Research Support (MARS) Center in Naples has been selected to manage the Joint Office. "The choice for the Dutch location is due to its proximity to microgravity program colleagues at ESTEC and within easy reach of most other European microgravity centers," says Mirra. The two companies began offering Shuttle microgravity flight opportunities to European users in February 1989. Since then, Space Shuttle flight services for the microgravity research programs of ESA, DLR and European industry have been arranged jointly. SPACEHAB, with its Johnson Engineering and Astrotech subsidiaries, is the world's leading provider of commercial payload processing services for manned and unmanned payloads. SPACEHAB is the first company to commercially develop, own and operate habitable modules that provide laboratory facilities and logistics re-supply aboard NASA's Space Shuttles. The Company also supports NASA astronaut training at Johnson Space Center.
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